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I see.

Anglico — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 14:21:15 -0400

You're using the old "I'm the tool, not them" defense.

Re: I'll look forward to reading your highlights

ryanteaguebeckwith — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 13:40:04 -0400

Actually, in this case they're coming to me for a quote.

— RTB

Lotta professional newspaper journalists

betsybarnet — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 13:35:34 -0400

Not so many bloggers. :)

I'll look forward to reading your highlights

Anglico — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 13:19:17 -0400

I'm unable to attend because I'm allergic to multimillion-dollar opinion manufacturing machines. Journalists should be too, considering that your newspaper's very own ombudsman had this to say last year:

But the newspaper also should bring the same skepticism to the Locke information machine that it does to other powerful institutions. Reporters should resist the temptation to go to Hood and Co. for the easy conservative quote and look instead for other voices from the right. The Locke Foundation reports and other information should be scrutinized to separate propaganda from fact. And the organization should be regarded not just as a resource -- a word used both by Christensen and Martinez -- but as an opinion manufacturer that is itself a story.

What we have here are a number of political reporters giving legitimacy to a conference sponsored by an organization whose primary focus is manipulating the media in pursuit of a right wing political agenda.

That's the shameless part as far as I'm concerned.

Shameless self-promotion

ryanteaguebeckwith — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 11:22:00 -0400

How will blogs affect the 2008 races in North Carolina?

Your guess is as good as mine. But I'll be giving my thoughts on the issue along with other state political bloggers at a conference next week regardless.

The event, sponsored by the N.C. Institute of Political Leadership and the John Locke Foundation, is called "Spinning the Web: Politics in the Internet Age."

Aside from yours truly, the other speakers will include former Howard Dean online strategist Zephyr Teachout, bloggers Ed Cone, Laura Leslie, Mark Binker and Mary Katherine Ham; and Robin Dorff of the institute.

The event begins at 8:30 a.m. on Saturday, Sept. 8, at the Research Triangle Park Hilton. Tickets, which cost $25, are available here. For those unable to attend, I will post some of the highlights that day.